Reduce high CPU usage by TFA

Problem:

Cluster nodes experienced high CPU usage, after investigation one of the top CPU consumers on the server has been found to be a TFA process (2nd place):

 # Fri Feb 19 17:44:01 2021
AllCPU  OneCPU  PID     User    PR      NI      STime   RSS     Name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11.75%  94.02%  23895   root    20      0       17:43   87M     ora_m001_ORCL2
1.42%   11.39%  2468    root    20      0       Feb02   736M    /opt/oracle.ahf/jre/bin/java -server -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Ddisable.checkForUpdate=true -XX:HeapDumpPath=/u01/app/oracle.ahf/data/rac02/diag/tfa -XX:ParallelGCThreads=5 oracle.rat.tfa.TFAMain /opt/oracle.ahf/tfa

Workaround:

In newer version of TFA, you can set CPU resource limit.

tfactl setresourcelimit 
 [-tool tool_name] 
 [-resource resource_type] 
 [-value value]

To limit TFA to a maximum of 50% of a single CPU, run the following:

# tfactl setresourcelimit -value 0.5

For more information, please check TFA official documentation.

If you don’t have newer version of TFA, you need to upgrade it first.